Alarm status is different for alarm-show vs. alarm-list

[Phil Neal]

root@overcloud-ce-controller-controllermgmt0-vzf6oedxu2tx:~# ceilometer alarm-list
+--------------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+---------+------------+-------------------------------------------------+------------------+
| Alarm ID | Name | State | Enabled | Continuous | Alarm condition | Time constraints |
+--------------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+---------+------------+-------------------------------------------------+------------------+
| f2c68241-ee43-440c-b707-c4a88f336802 | storagealarm | insufficient data | True | False | storage.objects.containers > 2.0 during 5 x 60s | None |
| fc04e9b8-1235-42c2-8d89-5ccf50cf7c5b | verifyalarm | ok | False | False | volume.size > 9.0 during 2 x 600s | None |
+--------------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+---------+------------+-------------------------------------------------+------------------+
root@overcloud-ce-controller-controllermgmt0-vzf6oedxu2tx:~# ceilometer alarm-show -a f2c68241-ee43-440c-b707-c4a88f336802
+---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| alarm_actions | [u'log://'] |
| alarm_id | f2c68241-ee43-440c-b707-c4a88f336802 |
| comparison_operator | gt |
| description | func test |
| enabled | True |
| evaluation_periods | 5 |
| exclude_outliers | False |
| insufficient_data_actions | [] |
| meter_name | storage.objects.containers |
| name | storagealarm |
| ok_actions | [] |
| period | 60 |
| project_id | fafd57f95d4448ba9cad70bb8a8476f3 |
| query | resource_id == fafd57f95d4448ba9cad70bb8a8476f3 AND |
| | project_id == fafd57f95d4448ba9cad70bb8a8476f3 |
| repeat_actions | False |
| state | ok |
| statistic | max |
| threshold | 2.0 |
| type | threshold |
| user_id | 880d3b36720242c993955247c49fc5df |
+---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
root@overcloud-ce-controller-controllermgmt0-vzf6oedxu2tx:~# ceilometer alarm-state-get -a f2c68241-ee43-440c-b707-c4a88f336802
+----------+-------+
| Property | Value |
+----------+-------+
| state | ok |
+----------+-------+

look in for the values show with ceilometer alarm-list and ceilometer alarm-list/ceilometer alarm-list

One says as insufficient data and other 2 shows as Ok.

[Nejc Saje (nejc-saje)]

Can you provide instructions on how to reproduce this?

[Anurag (anurag-kumar)]

After creating alarm its state is "insufficient data" for a while once it start collecting metrics it become "ok", so in your case may be you just created the alarm.

[Phil Neal (nealph)]

Agreed that this was probably a timing issue....in any case the disagreement between the various api commands didn't persist so will let this one go.